Posts about Zuckerberg's world-destroying data gathering machine.
Facebook's approach to news is getting ever more elitist - and controlling Paid Members Public
Facebook is about to start pumping millions into news publishers to create Facebook Watch as a viable video channel. That's really uncomfortable timing…
The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook Paid Members Public
The attitude Mark Zuckerberg is displaying towards news suggests a deep ignorance of the true dynamics of news and its role in society.
A quick glimpse at the next evolution of Facebook's newsfeed Paid Members Public
Mark has plans to make you fully immersed…
Yes, Facebook is tracking you when you aren’t logged in Paid Members Public
Not really a surprise, but it’s good to hear it confirmed.
Domain hopping to beat the Facebook algorithm Paid Members Public
Craig Silverman on a new technique some publishers are using to beat Facebook algorithm changes [https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/publishers-are-switching-domain-names-to-try-and-stay-ahead] : > “Publishers have found that their domains are often penalized by Facebook’s algorithm over policy changes that they don’t announce publicly. As a result you can see
The LittleThings lesson publishers should be learning Paid Members Public
The first major casualty of the Facebook algorithm change was announced last week: LittleThings was closing up, putting 100 people out of work. And, inevitably, they were a Facebook traffic-dependent publisher. Lucia Moses has written a great profile of LittleThings [https://digiday.com/media/live-algorithm-die-algorithm-littlethings-went-social-publishing-darling-shutting/] for Digiday: > CEO and
Facebook Live is looking rather unwell Paid Members Public
Facebook Live is beginning to look undead [https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/facebook-live-over-as-payments-end.php]: > The number of Facebook Live videos produced by paid partners more than halved by the end of 2017—and in one case fell by as much as 94 percent—as once guaranteed payments ended
Facebook: our news figures don't include social video or posts without links Paid Members Public
Do you remember that figures that Facebook have been quoting about news being 5% of newsfeed content? Buzzfeed went and asked Facebook to prove it. And they said “no” [https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/facebook-wont-release-its-5-of-news-feed-content-is-news] : > Facebook is refusing to release data to back up its claim that merely 5%
